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Gold Quotes


"Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to."
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"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."


"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."
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"Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them."


"Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows."


"Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold."
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"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."


"As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient."


"I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars."
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"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."
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"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."


"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."


"One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself."


"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."


"I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude."
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"Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse."


"We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part."


"As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess."
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"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."


"The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."


"I wouldn't say that there's ever been an Olympic champion that didn't deserve to win an Olympic Gold Medal."
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"The only thing I really, really want is for the U.S. to win again. Just to win another team gold. And, of course I would really want to win an all-around gold."


"Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside."
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"There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold."


"Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired."


"More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure."


"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"


"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."


"They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody."
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"You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold."
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"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."
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